NCAA School Rigs Last Chance Meet to Qualify for Nationals. Shameful if true.

Riddle me this...on the schedule on their site that has the 4x4 at 8:30, there is no 800m scheduled but they had a woman break the school record and qualify for NCAA's in the 800m at the meet.

Maybe the NCAA should be run as a business and not a circus🤔

Maybe this meet should have been run professionally and not like a circus.

‘Hey NCAA we had a time trial after our track meet and our team ran a qualifying time, can we come to nationals?’

‘first congrats to your team secondly no’

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2024 Indoor Last Chance (PDF)

2024 Indoor Last Chance (PDF)

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you can see the schedule here. which of these things is not like the other. like there is a normally 2 day last chance meet with multis, starting 10 that second day with events every 10-15 minutes mostly in the early afternoon culminating per usual with a men's 4x4 at 3-ish and then suddenly 5 hours to the women's 4x4 run at 830. was that changed in progress?

and we all kind of know how these meets work. the multis drive over early. the meet is designed for the visitors to hop back in bus/van at 3-4 and be home in the evening for dinner. you don't run at 8 unless it's local teams or a stayover night.

interestingly, w4x4 isn't on the results and when someone mentions the recap omitted it, well, it was filed at like 5-something (after normal end of the meet) AND SO THE PHANTOM 4X4 HADN'T BEEN RUN YET.

it's also weird the 4x4 on TFRRS doesn't link to the same time. like it's a faster time, pound sign, click through to slower time. if you go to it via their PRs for the season. which shows it was a one-team race. which is ok but then it has to be in a meet with sufficient teams still. it's a little strange the race is on TFRRS but not the milesplit meet stuff.

STOP THE COUNT!!!!

the coach surely "knows" better. the kids might have an inkling but are likely just showing up when told and running a race, though they have reason to play along as those not qualified individually are watching their relay situation evaporate.

at some of these D3 last chance things you do end up with 1 person running an event or the whole event scratched. no one is trying to win the team points and you usually run mostly the best bubble kids who still want hope, and maybe a couple kids who just badly wanted another meet.

so it's possibly you get to 3:30 and no one else wants to run. but to me you then either run alone at 3:30 or we're done. setting aside the rules stuff it would be sketchy to say, we will push the race to 830, go to the dorms, rest, have some dinner, we will monitor the competition at their meets, and then depending we will run a time trial at 830 or just relax and go to nationals. you could justify it as we run the meet, no one else wanted to compete that event, we didn't declare it over, we PP'd the race then held it with the "teams who stayed." but PP'ing a race to rest, recuperate, and scoreboard watch strikes me as "meet is over." you didn't have a plumbing problem, or outside weather, or a protest, or some real reason to PP. the race should have gone off as scheduled.

Also, if there's only one team running, what happens if there's a lane violation? Or something that a supposedly neutral official missed and is in the purview of a protest?

This whole thing stinks so bad. The Coach absolutely knows/knew better, and did it anyway. Not saying he should be fired, but honestly I don't think that scratching everyone from Mt. Union would be an unreasonable punishment.

This is an AMAZING point. 800 is not listed on that document anywhere. 14 people raced in an event that isn't even listed?

What the hell clown operations was happening in this meet?

The 800m was before the mile in the schedule of events.

Of course the coach that posted this start is the same one that had 38 athletes quit his first year of coaching CCX and Track at Emory.

Scratch everyone? Are you serious or just jealous of the Mount Union program?

Yes, I'm jealous of a program that has to so blatantly cheat in order to get a relay qualified.

Do you care to disclose what your affiliation is to these scumbag cheating losers?

Son and brother of an alumni. Dad - class of ‘49 and sisters in ‘76 and ‘78. Parent of an athlete and proud of it!

Yes. I’ve done that with at least 15 different timing companies. Happens all the time…. It’s on my pre-meet checklist, right after we guzzle sodium bicarbonate while rubbing in UncleSals moisturizing cream.

Are you really calling the relay team scumbag losers? These girls are all hard working athletes. Of course it takes a Scumbag to know a scumbag🤔. So you must be a scumbag.

So then you are saying the athletes are scumbags?

No way! The jerk (go dens 2) that I responded to is. I’m proud of all of them.

No bad students...only bad teachers.